Expat Life: Convey Pecan Pie, Volition Move For Thanksgiving

This year, I was fortunate plenty to celebrate ii Thanksgivings – 1 inwards Düsseldorf, Germany, together with 1 at our apartment inwards London.

This marked our tertiary twelvemonth travelling to the ‘Dorf to celebrate an expat Thanksgiving at that topographic point amongst a swain American friend together with our High German friends. We had to skip a twelvemonth inwards 2015 when nosotros moved to Australia, merely nosotros managed to celebrate Thanksgivings together inwards 2014, 2016 together with 2017. I’m certain 2018 volition live on the calendar 1 time to a greater extent than too.

Our friends rubbed downwardly the turkey amongst a BBQ-like spice rub together with and thence smoked it for several hours outside. The turkey was delicious, together with surprisingly, actually moist.

The dinner tabular array included the classic American dishes: cornbread stuffing/dressing, my cheesy greenish edible bean casserole, cranberry compote, mashed potatoes, baked sweetness spud casserole, together with of course, pies. Once again, I travelled amongst a pie inwards my suitcase…and landed safely inwards FRG amongst it. I’m happy no 1 from edge patrol tried to pocket my pie!

When you lot alive abroad, friends operate similar your ain household unit of measurement members.

I also made a pumpkin pie 1 time nosotros arrived inwards Germany.

A lovely autumnal persuasion together with a rainbow inwards FRG for our expat Thanksgiving weekend.

Hope you lot had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year, if you lot celebrated! I’m real thankful that our expat life continues to let us to move together with run into upward amongst our friends all over the world.

If you lot similar to laissez passer on my boozy pecan pie recipe a go, you’ll detect it below.

Cheers,

Joy

Joy’s Pecan Pie

Use my measure Tart Dough for the pie crunch here.

4 ea.  large eggs at room temperature, whisked

185 g. chocolate-brown carbohydrate

60 ml. lite corn syrup or Golden Syrup

60 ml. molasses

1/2 tsp.  tabular array salt

1/2 tsp.  vanilla extract

45 g. butter, melted

30 ml. whiskey or bourbon, ** (optional)

285 g. walnuts or pecans, roughly chopped

In a large bowl, whisk the ingredients together inwards the lodge they are listed. Cover the bottom of the tart shells amongst pecans. Add the filling to correct below the rim of the tart. 

Bake at 350 F/175 C until lightly browned together with the filling is set, virtually 12 minutes full for small-scale tarts, or 30-25 minutes for the large tart. Remove tarts from molds piece nevertheless warm.

We fifty-fifty got to watch the Christmas marketplace position beingness gear upward inwards the Old Town of Dusseldorf.
Of course, nosotros enjoyed or thence gluhwein equally well.

My first, merely non my last, gluhwein of the 2017 Christmas season.